Folk Songs About Flying and Airplanes

The Everly Bros.\ Ebony Eyes
Al Stewart\ The Immelman Turn\ A Beach Full of Shells\ Appleseed
Mary Chapin Carpenter\ Why Walk When You Can Fly\ Stones In The Road\ Columbia
Jack Williams\ Playing On The Runway\ Across The Winterline\ Wind River
Jim Lauderdale\ Looking For A Good Place To Land\ The Bluegrass Diaries\ Yep Rock

Snoopy vs. The Red Baron                 The Royal Guardsmen

"Flying Sorcery" - Al Stewart - Year of the Cat

From: Harlan Hudson
(Biplane) Evermore
   [U.K. version performed by The Irish Rovers]
   [U.S. version performed by The Royal Guardsmen]

The Airplane Song (aka My Airplane)*
Down Behind the Lines*
   *[(original?) versions performed by The Royal Guardsmen]

From: Patrick and Susan Kinney
This Flight Tonight -- Joni Mitchell
Outbound Plane -- Nanci Griffith

From Angela Page, July 16, 2005
Flying and Airplanes today on Folk Plus


        1. Peter Paul and Mary - Leaving On A Jet Plane 327
        10 years Together - Warner Bros


        2. Red Grammer - With Two Wings
        Teaching Peace -  Red Note


        3. Cindy Kallet - Working on Wings to Fly 220
        Working on wings to Fly - Folk Legacy 83


        4 Cosy Sheridan - Car Phone and Airplanes 258
         Saturn Return -  Waterbug


        5 Kristina Olsen - Yellow Piper 524
        Truth of A Woman - Take A Break


        6 Vance Gilbert - Fly 333
        Shaking Off Gravity - Philo


        7 Susan White - Not Afraid to Fly 401
        Not Afraid to Fly - Blix st.


        8 Winstons - Up in the Air 356
        Coming through - Clawd Records


        9 Artisan - What's the Use of Wings ? 246
        Rocking at the End of Time - Bedspring Music


        10 Elton John - Daniel 353
        Greatest Hits- Polydor


        11 Seeger, Arlo Guthrie - (W Guthrie) - Deportee
        Pete and Arlo Together in Concert - Reprise


        12 Ellis Paul - Airplane Pilot Dead Head 219
        Live - Philo


        13 Lucy Kaplansky - This Home 359
        Red Thread - Red House


        14 James Keelaghan - Princes of teh Clouds 424
        Small Rebellions - Tranquilla Music


        15 Zoe Speaks - Birds fly South  313
        Birds Fly South - Redbird


        16 Ian and Sylvia - Early Morning Rain 358
        Best of Vanguard - Vanguard


        17 Jody William Smith - United 904 435
        Travel - Smithtowne Records


        18 Indigo Girls - Airplane 322
        Rites Of Passage - Epic


        19 Christine Lavin - Attainable Love 140
        Fly on a Plane - Philo


        20 Travellers- Black Fly Song 259
        This Land Is Your Land  - Sony Music


        21 U. Utah Phillips Enola Gay Intro, Enaloa Gay
        Starlight on the Rails  - AK Press


        22Vance Gilbert - I Got a Plane 335
        Unfamiliar Moon - Disismye Music


        23 Melwood Cutlery - Aeroplane 509
        Campfire -Borealis


        24 Nanci Griffith - Flyer 423
        The Flyer - Elektra


        25 Sue Pyper - Before You Learn to Fly 359
        Before You Learn to Fly  suepyper.com


        26 David Roth - If You Can't Fly 430
        If You Can't Fly- maythe light Music


        27 Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald - If I Could Fly
        Fields of Elysian / Freewheel


        28 David Wilcox - Johnny's Camero 853
        East Ashville Hardware - Davidwilcox.com

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